Arabic

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Arabic is a Semitic language widely spoken across the Arab world and used as a liturgical language in Islam.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Semitic language
liturgical language
macrolanguage
directionOfWriting right-to-left
hasCalligraphicStyle Diwani script
Kufic script
Naskh script
Ruqʿah script
Thuluth script
hasCalligraphicTradition Arabic calligraphy
hasDerivedScript Perso-Arabic script
hasDialectGroup Maghrebi Arabic
surface form: Andalusian Arabic (historical)

Arabic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Egyptian Arabic

Gulf Arabic
Hijazi Arabic
Levantine Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic
Mesopotamian Arabic
Arabic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Najdi Arabic

Sudanese Arabic
Yemeni Arabic
hasGrammaticalFeature case system
grammatical gender
verb conjugation by person, number, gender
hasMorphologicalFeature root-and-pattern morphology
triconsonantal roots
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
pharyngeal consonants
hasRegister Classical Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic
colloquial dialects
historicalForm Old Arabic
influencedLanguage Hausa
Indonesian
Malay
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Spanish
Swahili language
surface form: Swahili

Turkish
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
isLanguageOf Arab culture
Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
Islamic philosophy
Islamic theology (kalam)
classical Arabic literature
pre-Islamic Arabic poetry
ISO639-1Code ar
ISO639-2Code ara
ISO639-3Code ara
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
liturgicalUseIn Islam
officialLanguageOf Algeria
Arab League
Bahrain
Chad
Comoros
Djibouti
Egypt
Eritrea
Iraq
Arabic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Israel (as Modern Standard Arabic)

Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
Oman
State of Palestine
surface form: Palestine

Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
State of Palestine
Sudan
Syria
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
oneOfSixOfficialLanguagesOf United Nations
religiousUseIn Islamic prayer
Islamic scholarship
sacredTextLanguageOf Quran
standardForm Arabic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Classical Arabic

Arabic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Modern Standard Arabic
subfamily Central Semitic languages
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn Middle East
North Africa
usedIn Arab world
writingSystem Arabic script
writingSystemVariant Arabic abjad

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FRMF (French abbreviation) officialLanguage Arabic
subject surface form: FRMF
Jordan (country) officialLanguage Arabic
subject surface form: Jordan
Zaʼtara officialLanguage Arabic
Qatanna officialLanguage Arabic
Tadjourah Region, Djibouti officialLanguage Arabic
subject surface form: Tadjourah Region
Sakaka officialLanguage Arabic
Maysan officialLanguage Arabic
subject surface form: Maysan Governorate
Relizane officialLanguage Arabic
Tiaret officialLanguage Arabic
Al Zahraa officialLanguage Arabic
Baskinta officialLanguage Arabic
Boumerdes officialLanguage Arabic
Saihat officialLanguage Arabic
Faqous officialLanguage Arabic
El Qurein officialLanguage Arabic
Lakes region officialLanguage Arabic
subject surface form: Lakes State
Maghagha officialLanguage Arabic
New Valley officialLanguage Arabic
subject surface form: New Valley Governorate
Aspetar officialLanguage Arabic
Kafr Saqr officialLanguage Arabic